San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-16
EDITORIAL BREvITIES.

oHlAL
ENGLAND is rendezvousing her war
ships In the Gulf Of New Foundland.
She knows how easy 1t is to intimidate
q democratic administration.
The Kerrville Eye Is looking anxious
ly for the advent OF the iron horse
whose snort will be heard 10 Comfort
within the next forty-eight hours.
CHRP COLoRow, the murderous old
Ute Of unssvory memory, should be sent
to join Geronimo In the happy land OF
sunrise.
The watermelon crop Of Columbia, s.
c., Is put down as more profitable crop
than its cotton product. Barnwell
county has cleared $50, 900 from water
melons and has 10000 more to market.
Texas is discounted.
TEXAS always gets to the front. The
deRonstrator Of anatomy at Dartmouth
college is oolored student from Calves
ton, Texas, j. p. Haynes. He has over
stepped the color line.
The democratic brains OF this coun-
try are exercised over the status OF the
Fort Worth Gazette. The difficulty OF
deciding whether 1t Is ram, lamb, sheep
since the late prohibition slaughter.
To the fasters succeed the sleepers. A
Joliet lady, Mrs. John Herbert, has now
been asleep 220 days ard shows no signs
Of having finished her nap. She takes
no solid food and is reduced to q skele-
ton.
The Fort Worth Gazette, In shedding
tears over the separation Of Barney
Gibbs and Arch Cochran at the doors OF
the next democratic convention, has for
gotten that that same convention will
say TO the Gazette, 81 never knew you;
DEPART" etc.
The Rochester Post sticks Its stakes
solidly when it ssys-that prohibition
failed to carry in Texas. because there
was conviction that the new laws for
saloon regulation would prove more eff
fectiye than prohibition.
FORT WORTH talks OF introducing local
option, and Dallas will respond with q
big jug factory. 1t would be strange
freak Of morals II the animosities be-
tween the cities should be adjusted on
q jug-hsndle basis.
SAN ANTONIO is being worked for the
Houston refrigerator with good pros
pect OF success. The cattlemen's COM
mittee are at work today enlisting the
business men OF this city In the enter
prize.
DIR, MCGLYNN does not want any Of
foe. The labor party into which he has
thrown himself with all his zeal can give
him nothing, but how about the other
fellow. McGlyDn is labor party man
for love OF Henry George; Henry
George, for love Of what?
TAE Gladstonisns scored another Sig
nal victory In the Northwick division OF
Cheshire last Saturday. Lord Henry
Grosvener, son OF the duke OF West
minister and q liberal uniOnist, was beaten
by the Gladstone liberal, j. o. Bruner,
by 1893 votes. The Irishmen are jubil-
ant.
LATEST telegraph dispatches seem to
indicate that Prince Ferdinand, Of SAKE
Gotha, has the backing Of England, Aus
tria, Italy and probably Turkey In TAX
ing his seat as ruler elect upon the throne
Of Bulgaria. Possession is nine points
OF the law.
RUTHERFORD, state health officer Issues
his mandate to kill any man attempting
to pass quarantine st Orange, Texas.
Parties are reported as providing
through on freight trains and the health
head OF Texas has made his inspectors
understand that he will use all the for
chile measures authorized by law to
prevent this disregard Of regulations.
THERE is very likely to be a split
between the English High Court OF the
Ancient Order Of Forresters and the
American subsidiary courts on the color
question. The English court orders the
admission OF oolored men: the Ameri-
can court In Its recent session In
Chicago refused to comply with the
order, and so Informed the English
court.
GUARD well the portals to perdition.
Four self-denyiDg, braiDy young ladies
Wellesley college that they might pre-
pare themselves for missionary work,
have been refused permission to enter
the foreign field because they believe In
probation after death. Belief In eternal
damnation is q prerequisite to teaching
the gospel OF eternal salvation BY faith
In Christ.
The confederate reunion at Dallas
which opens tomorrow will be the most
elaborate affair ofthe kind yet enjoyed
i'll loAhss ne pavilion WHICH the eXer-
discs will be held In has seats arranged
for 5000 and all the notables OF the state
will be In attendance. Gen. Ross, Sena-
tors Maxey and Coke, Ex-Gov. Rocket,
OF Arkansas, Gen. Young, OF this city
and several others are engaged to at
tend and are billed for speeches.
TIE conviction grows stronger every
day that the ChatswOrth accident was
caused by the section hands careless
ness in not pstrOliDg the road as special
ly ordered by the superintendent. The
fires In the grass kindled by themselves
were permitted to eat their way to the
culvert and burn out the abutment on
which the stringers rested. This ap-
pears to be the general impression as
conveyed by the testimony Of those who
have no interest In OOncealing facts,